Because There Is Jewish Life After The Bar/Bat Mitzvah!

During my sabbatical last year, I spent a lot of time thinking about iServe, our post B’nai Mitzvah program for 9th-12th grade students. It was developed by our Education Director, Beth Michell, and one of our longtime faculty members, Hillary Tescher. Last year, Cantor Debbie and an incredible group of Ramat Shalom parents added an interactive social action component to iServe that will continue this year. Also last year, the teens elected their own iServe board that will be integrally involved in our programming and events in 2017-2018.

I’m excited to be jumping into the iServe team this year, leading several workshops, discussions and special projects. Below, you can find the 2017-2018 schedule and topics. Note that, at this time, the schedule does not include all of our social action projects.

Cantor Debbie will be running our 8th grade program that will introduce our younger teens to many of the topics we will be exploring with our 9th-12th grade students.

The Cantor and I look forward to working with many of your teens this year! The adventure begins on September 13th at our Welcome Back BBQ where the Cantor and I will be doing the grilling. Wish us luck and please send your teens! All 8th-12th grade students are invited.